Wednesday, February 24, 2021

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Amazon's Luna cloud gaming service is now open to all Fire TV users

Posted: 24 Feb 2021 05:30 AM PST

Amazon joined Google and NVIDIA in the cloud gaming ring last year with the launch of Luna. However, with the service starting life in early access through a small invite-only trial in the US, rollout has been slow. But, four months after its launch,...

Amazon Echo Show 10 review: A rotating screen is a pricey novelty

Posted: 24 Feb 2021 05:00 AM PST

Ever since the original Echo Show, smart displays have proven to be pretty useful around the house. They're great for quickly looking up information, recipe instructions, video calls and more. But here's the problem: They're completely stationary. Yo...

The Morning After: This USPS vehicle could have an electric motor inside

Posted: 24 Feb 2021 04:39 AM PST

While you can use your existing PlayStation VR headset on the PS5 (if you have the adapter), Sony has revealed the first details of a brand new PSVR visor built for its new console. Some of the upgrades are predictable (and much needed), like "d...

NASA wants to play a big part in the development of electric aircraft

Posted: 24 Feb 2021 04:20 AM PST

While everyone's eyes are trained on its mission to Mars, NASA is also working to make flights back here on Earth more eco-friendly. By way of a new partnership with the aviation industry, the space agency wants to advance design and modelling to...

TikTok removed almost 350,000 videos for spreading election misinformation

Posted: 24 Feb 2021 04:00 AM PST

TikTok is offering a new glimpse into just how much misinformation is on its platform. Between July and December of last year, the app removed hundreds of thousands of videos for breaking its rules around misinformation about the 2020 presidential el...

Samsung's Galaxy Note 20 Ultra drops to $925 at Amazon for today only

Posted: 24 Feb 2021 03:35 AM PST

The Galaxy Note 20 Ultra is still Samsung's biggest, baddest smartphone with features like a huge, fantastic screen, excellent battery life and that famous S Pen. The biggest issue we had with it was the gobsmacking $1,300 price, but right now it...

Teenage Engineering will handle product design at Carl Pei's Nothing

Posted: 24 Feb 2021 03:00 AM PST

Nothing, the London—based startup formed by OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei, has formally introduced Teenage Engineering as a founding partner. You may remember Teenage Engineering for its portable music creation tools like the OP-1 synth and its Capcom-...

Federal judge rules that California can enforce its net neutrality law

Posted: 24 Feb 2021 02:35 AM PST

A federal judge has ruled that California can enact its net neutrality law, paving the way for the enforcement of rules banning internet service providers from blocking, speeding up or slowing down select websites or services. The decision heralds th...

Hyundai will replace 75,680 Kona EV batteries over potential fire risks

Posted: 24 Feb 2021 02:00 AM PST

Hyundai will replace the batteries in 75,680 Kona EVs and 82,000 electric vehicles in total at a cost of around 1 trillion won ($900 million), according to Korean regulators and Yonhap. The announcement comes after Hyundai recalled the Kona EV in Sou...

The ‘Stardew Valley’ board game is now available

Posted: 24 Feb 2021 12:24 AM PST

Stardew Valley creator ConcernedApe is giving you a new way to run a farm without having to, you know, run an actual farm. The developer has announced that the beloved simulation RPG now comes in the form of a board game, which you can purchase for $...

The remaining Fry's Electronics stores are all shutting down

Posted: 23 Feb 2021 09:50 PM PST

Fry's Electronics has been a mostly West Coast-based shopping destination for gadget heads of all kinds, but now the retailer is calling it quits. On Twitter, Wario64 pointed out a tweet by a former employee and AV store owner noting that employe...

Samsung's 'Buy and Try' program extends its foldables' return period to 100 days

Posted: 23 Feb 2021 08:46 PM PST

Samsung is giving you the chance to figure out if its foldable phones are right for you by extending their return period to over three months. The tech giant has launched a "Buy and Try" program for the Galaxy Z Flip 5G and Galaxy Z Fold 2...

LG confirms webOS will power smart TVs by other manufacturers too

Posted: 23 Feb 2021 07:02 PM PST

Long after HP dumped webOS as a platform for Palm smartphones and tablets, LG is still using the tech it snagged in 2013 to run apps and manage voice assistants on new smart TVs. While it continues to maintain an open source edition, LG just confirme...

'Next-gen' USPS vehicles can use gas or electric motors

Posted: 23 Feb 2021 03:01 PM PST

The US Postal Service plans to have a new mail van on American roads by 2023. A new contract will see Oshkosh Defense manufacture between 50,000 and 165,000 "Next Generation Delivery Vehicles" for the agency over the next 10 years. The vehi...

Sony's next State of Play previews PS5 and PS4 games on Thursday

Posted: 23 Feb 2021 02:19 PM PST

Sony announced another State of Play special for Thursday afternoon, but quickly noted that there won't be any PlayStation hardware news revealed during the thirty minute stream. Instead, we're expecting to see previews of PS4 and PS5 games &...

Razer's $200 Kiyo Pro webcam adds adjustable FOV and 60 fps 1080p capture

Posted: 23 Feb 2021 01:38 PM PST

With a pandemic that has created intense demand for high-end webcams, Razer is adding a new product to its lineup of streaming peripherals. The Kiyo Pro is a 2.1-megapixel camera that can capture 1080p footage at up to 60 frames per second or up to 3...

Twitter bans 100 accounts linked to Russian troll farms

Posted: 23 Feb 2021 12:28 PM PST

For at least the third time in less than a year, Twitter has banned a network of accounts with links to Russia's Internet Research Agency (IRA), the troll farm responsible for interfering in the 2016 presidential election. Twitter said on Tuesday it...

The old Google Pay app will soon lose person-to-person transfers in the US

Posted: 23 Feb 2021 12:13 PM PST

Google has informed US users of the older Google Pay app on Android, iOS and the web that they'll need to move to the new app to continue sending, receiving and transferring money. The original version will lose that feature on April 5th, as well...

You are the frog in Peacock's upcoming 'Frogger' physical competition show

Posted: 23 Feb 2021 11:41 AM PST

What do you get when you mix Takeshi's Castle with Frogger, besides a hairspray-infused blast of 1980s nostalgia? A new show from NBC, apparently. Peacock, NBC's streaming platform, has ordered 13 hourlong episodes of Frogger, an oversized ph...

Sony's FX3 is a compact $3,900 camera for filmmakers

Posted: 23 Feb 2021 11:10 AM PST

Sony has announced the FX3. As expected, the camera is essentially an A7S III with features from the company's Cinema line crammed into a body that looks like the A7C. Its backside-illuminated full-frame sensor has an effective resolution of 10.2...

Facebook is testing more tools to combat child exploitation

Posted: 23 Feb 2021 10:58 AM PST

Facebook says it is testing more tools to help the social network prevent people from sharing content that exploits children. One is a pop-up message that it plans to display across Facebook apps to people who use search terms linked to child explora...

'Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 and 2' will hit Switch later this year

Posted: 23 Feb 2021 10:01 AM PST

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater is heading back to mobile platforms, but this time around, it's leaving the Game Boy Advance behind. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 and 2 will hit Switch in 2021, sometime after spring, finally bringing the full title to...

Sony's ‘Days Gone’ is coming to PC this spring

Posted: 23 Feb 2021 09:36 AM PST

2019 PlayStation 4 exclusive Days Gone will make its way to PC later this year, Sony president and CEO Jim Ryan told GQ in the same interview where the PSVR2 came up. It's the first of several first-party games the company plans to port to PC in the...

Stadia's next exclusive game is 'PixelJunk Raiders'

Posted: 23 Feb 2021 09:00 AM PST

Although Google Stadia doesn't have its own game development studios anymore, it's still going to release exclusive games. The next one that's coming to the platform is Q-Games' PixelJunk Raiders. The latest entry in the long-running...

Android update adds scheduled texts and improves accessibility

Posted: 23 Feb 2021 09:00 AM PST

The first developer preview of Android 12 may not have told us a lot about what to expect from the next version of Google's mobile OS, but we're getting new features sooner than we expected. The company is announcing a set of six updates toda...

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